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t)laceth the Mouth of It lo'. only to the weftward of Cat^ 

 thage\ a Situation which falls in with the Sanduary of Seedy 

 ^mmer Buch-tewah, where there is the antient Bed of a River, 

 with a large Mountain, (perhaps one of thofe taken Notice of 

 hy Tolyhius') that ends in a Precipice above It. 

 Tokens of In. It may be farther obferved, that in travelling from This 

 undauons. g^j^^^^j.y ^Q Gelldh, wc fcc difpcrfcd all over the mterjacent 

 Plain, Pine- Apples, Trunks of Trees, and other Tokens of large 

 Inundations. Befides the Channel likewife juft now mentioned, 

 we pafs over others, which, to all Appearance, muft have been 

 at one time or other, either the natural or accidental Beds of 

 This River. For as the whole Extent of Shore, from Carthage 

 to Torto Farina, is little higher than the ordinary Level of the 

 Sea, lying expofed to the E. and N. E. Winds ; It is poffible 

 that the Mouth of This, as well as of other Rivers, we read of, 

 in a like Situation, might have been from Time to Time flopped 

 up, as we find It adually was in the Time of Tolyhius^^ and 

 that after being obliged to find out one new Channel after ano. 

 ther, as each of them in If s Turn was filled up, or the Com- 

 munication with It cut off. It retired at laft wnatx Cape Zibeeh, 

 where thofe Winds could give It no Difturbance. Yet even 

 under This Situation, there is Room to apprehend, that in a 

 few Years the Channel will return again to the Southward. 

 For the navigable Pond is every Day more and more choaked 

 Th.skauo^. up with Slime, and the Mouth (or Bar in the Mariners Stile) 

 f:J '^' oftheRiver, which, 'till of late, admittedVeifelsofthegreateft 

 Burthen, is at prefent too fliallow to receive one of Their 

 Crmfers of thirty Guns, unlefs It be before-hand difcharged 

 of It's Lumber and Ballaft. 

 Boo-fhatter, Such Revolutions as thefe having befallen the Bagrada , 

 ?^mKH." Utica, which, by antient Authors, was fituated to the North- 

 f ;. Vc.- ward of It, is now to be enquired after in the contrary Diredion. 

 g-'^SlThis City then, fo much wanted in the Old Geography of This 

 "^" Country, and which Bochart interprets [^pn;; y4Hca^ The 



antient City, is placed by Ttolemy 30'. to the S. and rd. to the 

 E. of the Promontory of Apollo. But This is a Situation too 



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